Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Firky]

She knows her audience and her audience love her.

 

[sihhi]

She knows her audience and her audience love her.

She is most twitter-followed of all New Statesman journalists. Her audience is also the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (the German equivalent of the Fabian Society )

https://twitter.com/grrrlsarestrong/status/303883426879111169

and 4chan - the weird guys behind 'Anonymous' that occasionally down a government website for half a day - there's an offer from them for her to go on their boards ! ?

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/303914110947581952

 

[cesare]

I didn't realise that 4chan are behind Anonymous.

 

[Delroy Booth]

They aren't, not really. 4chan is just the cesspit of the internet.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I didn't realise that 4chan are behind Anonymous.

Anonymous kind of grew from it but there is no formal connection

 

[smokedout]

given she called urban a hate site, a live chat on 4chan may come as a bit of an eye opener

 

[Bakunin]

given she called urban a hate site, a live chat on 4chan may come as a bit of an eye opener

We could always engage her in debate about slandering Urbanites like that.

 

[smokedout]

she did it in secret, back when we were still facebook friends, I bet good money she'd deny it

 

[Bakunin]

she did it in secret, back when we were still facebook friends, I bet good money she'd deny it

Par for the course, though, with her. Although I'd suggest that simply fact-checking her output and asking her to explain her many and varied differences with established fact might still be a vaguely fun way to spend an evening if I didn't have anything better to do. Nothing malicious, false or spiteful for the sake of it, just asking for explanations as to why her versions of event and interpretations of established fact conflict so much and so often with so many other people's sounds fair.

 

[phildwyer]

Why you wearing a hat indoors and jeans obviously too tgiht

Because she is little better than a brazen hussy?

A disgrace is what I call it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Someone needs to point out that that 7 pairs of boots is not 'an unending collection'.

He also doesn't seem to have a clue how to clean his footwear properly.

 

[Firky]

Because she is little better than a brazen hussy?

A disgrace is what I call it.

She?

 

[phildwyer]

She?

Innit.

Wouldn't have been allowed in my day.

 

[Firky]

An interesting turn of phrase by Molly, "guttersnipe".

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
They're hanging blowups of my art tonight at The Savoy for a Brit Awards afterparty. Going to go, feel like guttersnipe in palace.

 

[love detective]

"In which @owenjones84 and me have solidarity-tea (solidaritea?). Because fighting the good fight can be lonely work"

Not sure what is worse, their two smug faces in the photo or the putrid conception of what she thinks progressive politics is about in the quote that accompanies it

 

[weepiper]

Oh God. I want to like Owen Jones, I really do.

 

[smokedout]

is he getting younger?

how come he's getting younger

 

[equationgirl]

is he getting younger?

how come he's getting younger

Witchcraft and sorcery. FACT.

 

[smokedout]

come to think of it you never see tony benn now owen's turned up

 

[Firky]

Our Owen suffers from the same genetic disorder as myself. Upon reaching 18 years of age you do not look any older with each year that passes.

It's great. You only need to shave three or four times a week for example.

E2A: I am amazed she hasn't turned the book the other way round so we can read the spine and what dribble she is pretending to read.

 

[JimW]

He's perhaps taken "left wing communism, an infantile disorder" a bit too literally.

 

[Firky]

Marked card

An interesting turn of phrase by Molly, "guttersnipe".

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
They're hanging blowups of my art tonight at The Savoy for a Brit Awards afterparty. Going to go, feel like guttersnipe in palace.

@mollycrabapple why would you feel like guttersnipe you're well posh and used to such functions?

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
@Firky Oh man, are you going to dissect my tweets on that obsessive message board fan thread you have on Laurie and all her friends?

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
@Firky but to answer, the poshest parties I've been at, I've been hired entertainment. Which, while pretty good work, is still the help

 

[Libertad]

* Follows Firky's Twitter account *

 

[brogdale]

Our Owen suffers from the same genetic disorder as myself. Upon reaching 18 years of age you do not look any older with each year that passes.

It's great. You only need to shave three or four times a week for example.

E2A: I am amazed she hasn't turned the book the other way round so we can read the spine and what dribble she is pretending to read.

Looks suspiciously like the back of Heywood (Third Edition).

Any GovPol takers? (Route B...natch)

 

[butchersapron]

It's Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation i think. Pretty sure.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Can you tell that just by looking at the barcode butchers?

 

[brogdale]

It's Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation i think. Pretty sure.

And she thinks we're creepy obsessives!

 

[butchersapron]

Can you tell that just by looking at the barcode butchers?

I've shifted boxs and boxes of the thing all around the place for the last few years. And it is a fantastic book.

 

[The39thStep]

Oh God. I want to like Owen Jones, I really do.

He looks like the sort of person who would prefer a packed lunch to al fresco dining.

 

[Libertad]

He looks like the sort of person who would prefer a packed lunch to al fresco dining.